Luke Kaufman is a country singer whose music leans to the traditional, dominated by acoustic instruments and a honky tonk feel (with the occasional addition of a drum machine), while his lyrics are characterized by hell-raising swagger and bad-boy braggadocio, half rodeo rider and half Eminem. Kaufman was born and raised in Hendersonville, North Carolina; as a child, he was fascinated by the rodeo as well as music, and he began riding bulls as a young man while he'd started playing guitar, writing songs, and performing for his family by the time he was 12. As a young man, Kauf...